Wagon Mound massacre
| Wagon Mound massacre | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Apache Wars and Jicarilla War | |
The Wagon Mound butte, located in New Mexico. | |
| Location | Wagon Mound, New Mexico Territory |
| Date | May 7, 1850 |
| Target | A wagon carrying mail on the Santa Fe Trail. |
| Deaths | 10 American mail carriers killed |
| Perpetrators | 100 Apache and Ute warriors led by White Wolf |
The Wagon Mound massacre was an attack on a US Postal Service ox-wagon carried out on May 7, 1850 by a band of Jicarilla Apache and Mouache Ute Indians on the Cimmaron Cutoff route of the Santa Fe Trail, near Wagon Mound, New Mexico. The bodies of the 10 Americans killed in the attack were found in Santa Clara Springs near Wagon Mound by travelers on May 19, 1850, about a week after the attack.